Life Events

An article in The South Australian Advertiser, Saturday, October 27, 1877, reports that Laura Puplett won first prize for her button-hole bouquet and for her mounted ferns, in the North Adelaide Juvenile Floral Society Annual Show. She had also won a prize the previous year. Buttonhole bouquets seem to have been a speciality of Laura's, as she had also won 1/6d in 1874 for her skills. She won prizes for her artistic talents every year between 1871 and 1878 inclusive.2

Payments to Charity- Elder's Trustee and Executor Company, Limited, as one of the executors of the will of the late Laura Maria Puplett, recently made a payment of £175 ($350) on account of the residue of her estate to each of the following:- Home for Incurables Inc., Morialta Protestant Children's Home, Adelaide Children's Hospital, Royal Institution for the Blind, London Missionary Society (S.A. Auxiliary), Salvation Army,British and Foreign Bible Society (S.A. Auxiliary), Congregational Union and Home Mission, and the North Adelaide Brougham Place Congregational Church.6